For San Mateo County, that meant tapping into a network of administrators, law enforcement officials, teachers, family members of students who had experienced mental health issues, and current and former students who suffered from depression.

And Rutte used the occasion to stress the importance of a controversial Dutch intelligence law from June 2017 that would allow the government to conduct large-scale, untargeted tapping of Internet traffic.

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